Jones, Steve.

Darwin’s Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England.

Reprinted Edition. London, Little Brown, 2009. Octavo. 307 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

John Stephen Jones FRS (born 24 March 1944) is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His studies are conducted in the Galton Laboratory. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on the subject of biology, especially evolution. He is one of the contemporary popular writers on evolution. In 1996 his writing won him the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize “for his numerous, wide ranging contributions to the public understanding of science in areas such as human evolution and variation, race, sex, inherited disease and genetic manipulation through his many broadcasts on radio and television, his lectures, popular science books, and his regular science column in The Daily Telegraph and contributions to other newspaper media”. Jones was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, to Thomas Gwilym Jones and Lydia Anne Jones, his parents having met as students at the University of Aberystwyth. Until he was about ten years old the family were accommodated alternately at his paternal grandparents’ house in New Quay, Ceredigion, and his maternal grandparents’ house near Aberystwyth. Later the family moved to the Wirral, returning to Wales for their holidays. Jones’ view that in humans “Natural selection has to some extent been repealed” dates back at least to 1991 and has been the focus of a number of newspaper reports and radio interviews. His views are largely based on his claim that reduced juvenile mortality, decreasing age of fathers, and decreased geographical isolation of populations in Western societies reduce evolution. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: Biology – Rare
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781408700006
• Inventory Number: 43797AB

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